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To: LindyBill who wrote (97230)	1/27/2005 5:54:53 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Respond to of 793913

This trial was a joke. The witness's were actors in most cases reading from the original transcripts. They shouldn't have wasted their time on a retrial. Perhaps these judges that keep letting him out are having him live with their granddaughters since they are so convinced he was wronged.

To: LindyBill who wrote (97230)	1/27/2005 5:56:26 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793913

The convictions were reversed because the courts found that potentially exculpatory evidence was withheld from the jury. The prosecution blundered. That's the reason the case went on "forever." The Louisiana Supreme Court and the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit are not pushovers. Louisiana has a high execution rate. The law has degrees of homicide because we believe in relative degrees of culpability. Capital murder requires malice aforethought. In Rideau's case, he convinced them that he did not plan on killing the person, but panicked. Having not attended the trial, I don't know what it was that persuaded the jury that he did not plan to kill the victim. Rideau has stated that, had he intended to kill them in the first place, he would have executed them at the bank.

To: LindyBill who wrote (97230)	1/27/2005 6:25:30 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793913

Just took a pass through the various Rideau cases. I was mistaken about the exculpatory evidence. The first conviction was reversed because the DA played the tape of Rideau's confession on local TV and then the court refused a change of venue. SCOTUS held that it was a "kangaroo court." The second conviction was reversed in 1969 because of a ruling in another case, I can't find the details, I think it had to do with the way cases were prosecuted in Calcasieu Parish. The third conviction was reversed because blacks were excluded from the jury.